While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

Saint Francis de Sales

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Saint Francis de Sales

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Saint Francis de Sales

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Saint Francis de Sales

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Saint Francis de Sales

Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.

Saint Francis de Sales

To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.

Saint Francis de Sales

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

Saint Francis de Sales

The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises.